The twentieth-century Russian novel: an introduction

Eight of Russia's most popular and significant novels are presented in this important new guide for students. Works include:

- "We" by Evgenii Zamiatin

- "Red Cavalry" by Isaak Babel

- "Envy" by Iurii Olesha

- "How the Steel Was Tempered" by Nikolai Ostrovskii

- "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

- "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak

- "Cancer Ward" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

- "Pushkin House" by Andrei Bitov

In each chapter, David Gillespie examines one novel in detail and explores the career of the author and the critical reception of the work. Throughout, considerable reference is made to recently published scholarship and archival materials to provide students and scholars of Russian and Comparative Literature with a guide to these important Russian authors and their place in the world of literature. The book also includes an extensive bibliography of secondary literature and contains textual references in both the original Russian and in English translation.

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Pagina 45Furthermore, his very name, Babichev, is derived from the word baba (wench).8
Andrei represents the state and, indeed, embodies the state, for he acts as
surrogate father and mother to Kavalerov, although he himself denies the
importance ...

Pagina 55Furthermore, because he indicates the kind of minutiae nobody else would notice
, 'he is, in effect, drawing attention to his own pitiful position in Andrei's household
, where he is not even taken for granted'.16 The second passage is from Part ...

Pagina 158Chernyshevskii features in Pushkin House in the refrain 'what is to be done?'
Both novels, furthermore, contain long deliberations on Russian literature,
especially Pushkin; both contain elaborate word-play and literary games and
both contain ...